LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1700, 1 November 1887, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

We understand that Mr H. Friedlander in* tends contesting the Beat on the County Oounoil for the Upper Aubburton Biding, at present ooonpied by Mr D. MoLsan, bat for which that gentleman declines to itand for re election, ; A number of farms of application for space ! at the Melbourne Ctntennial Exhibition are j at the Borough Oounoil office, and persons desiring any may obtain them by applying to the Town Olerk. The returns of the Ashburton Hospital for the month of Ootober are as follows : — In Hospital on Ist Oct., 11; admitted during month, 15; discharged, 11 ; remaining on 316t, 12. A full dress and final, rehearsal of " John Barleycorn " will be held m the Oddfellows' Hall this evening at eight o'clock. The Matron of the Hospital wishes to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of papers from Mr Paul and the Postmaster, also some illustrated texts from Mr Dknant, for the use of the iamatoß. The New Zealand Shipping Company have rtosived the following cable message from their London offioe, dated 30th Oct., 1887 :— R.M.B. Tongariro arrived, all well, &t Plymouth yesterday. Meat m good oondition. A curious innovation lately adopted with brilliant BUceesß m the primary sahools of | several villagea and email towns of France fs | th« enrolling of the children m carefully. organised bands for the destruction of mischievoua insects and small beasts, and the careful protection of small birdi and useful insects. One afternoon m each week the school marches out into the open country, under the leading of the principal, armed with everything needed for the oarryinf oat of the earefully-explainsd programme, and operating under the eye of the head master or head mistress, who explains to the little, people, with the aid of colored engravings and of an examination of the creatures themselves the mischievous and the netful families of inseots, etc, teaches them the names and qualities of birds and the small animate that live m fields and woods, and incites the band to the destruction of the mischievous speoies and the preservation of tho innocent and useful ones. The achievements of eaoh ohild are recorded every week m a book, and at a public meeting of the countryside held every month, varioos rewards — honorable mentions, medals, and prizes— ara distributed, to the intense satisfaction of those who raceive them. It is said that the goodefieots are already visible. The next step m telegraphy may be expeoted Bhortly. Several inventors have been hanging about it for some years, and it will oome. You will before long be able to go into a telegraph office and send your message yourßelf, and it will be reproduced at the receiving b tat ion m tho aotual lines drawn on the " form." Mr Elisha Grey is busy with bis telantograph m America, and he will shortly Bhow us how to transmit our messages m our own handwriting. When he does that there can be no more " mistakes " or <; blunders" of telegraph olerks. It has bean done, and it is simply a question of making it successful m praotioal everyday work.— "Echo." The great elephant ■ Chief, who forms a part of the " pageant of viotory " m the play " Fall of Babylon," met with a curious mis. fortune recently. Just as he was about to go on the Btage the company was startled with a tremendous roar, and the great elephant fell to the ground writhing m pain. It was discovered that ho had bosn engaged m scientific investigations, and had seized an electric light wire with bis trunk. He re» oeived a severe shock, and his trunk was considerably burned, but he was Hot otherwise injured. The " Sydney Daily Telegraph " recently Boated that m New Zealand Sir O. ll i: O'Rorke and Major Atkinson was forming a Ministry, the latter to be Premier. This is news to New Zealanders, who had an idea that Sir Maurice O'Borke was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and we believe that New Zealanders are right and the " Telegraph " wrong. This is a fair sample of the knowledge of leading Australian newspapers of New Zealand politics. They have recently read us a leoture based on their remarkable ignorance, and their utterances, whioh have, of course, been m opposition to the Administration lately deposed, have been flaunted m the faoes of the people of the colony aa those of journals whoso wisdom j is phenomenal and whose opinions are better than are the opinions |of those who ara acquainted with the faots relative to our political position. SANDER AND SONS' EUCALPTI EXTRACT.— In protection of the world-wid* fame our manufacture has acquired all over the globe, we publish the following:— Hazard, M.D., Professor of General Pathology and Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, says m an editorial published m the " Clinical Rtoord " : — " We have examined half a dozen specimens of different manufactures ; the preparation of Sander and Sons' was tho only one that proved to be reliable and corresponding to scientific tests." Another coneootion called "Refined Extraot of Euoa* lyptuß," has made its appearance Binct. This product stands, aoooording to ©r Owen, foremost im causing injurious efleots. That gentleman communicates at a meeting of the Medioal Society of Victoria that a child living at Pitzroy beoams most Beriously indisposed through its use. In another case a lady I states on the strength of statutory deolara* I tion that ac suffered cruelly from tha effects of the sant* concoction. To guard the high reputation of our manufaotart w« feel warranted m exposing the above faots, and desire th« piiblio to exercise care and prtoau. - tion when buying.— SANDER AND lOKB'. — (Advt.) .